Week 4 Reflections

This week has been interesting. I learned more about how to use blogs in the classrooms. I was really enlightened on Wikis. I have not had any experience with Wikis. I did not realize how valuable they could be in an academic setting. I found a short article in Education Week (Sept. 12, 2007) that discussed the popularity of Wikis in some school districts like Pennsylvania, California, and (suprisingly) Georgia (my home state). The article even mentioned that a for-profit organization in San Francisco offers free wikis to teachers. The author, Davis (2007), contends that the creators of wikis generally limited the number of viewers, but educators prefer to have public wikis so teachers across the country can contribute or collaborate.

I am exploring other features for blogs, as well. The icons on this particular blog make it easy to add videos and images. See the picture of my son's horse? I am still trying to figure out how to use the whiteboard in the MSN Messenger Live chat forum. I played around with it, but it doesn't appear to be user-friendly.

I am really excited to be learning about these new technologies.

Reference:

Davis, M.R. (2007). Wiki wisdom: Lessons for educators. Education Week, 27, 3.

Week 3 Reflections

There was a lot of reading involved in this week's assignment, but I actually completed them all. I learned a lot about the differences between CBT/WBT and web based education. Some things I already knew, but the readings helped me see the difference between these types of learning environments. I enjoyed reading the posts of the web site critique of courses because they put me in connection with a lot of information. I even page marked some sites that I know I will need for the future.

Denise:

I think you have to enter your Gmail account to access and sign up for other blogs. Been having difficulty my self. Like you I have a few blogs going on for different purposes.

Frank

Reflections September 15, 2007

Hello to all!
I am having a difficult time with this blog because I have several blog account. I am not sure if I am to enter my msn email account and password when I respond to other people blogs or do I just enter deniseogden.blogspot.com. If anyone can see this and knoww what to do, please help.

Thanks,
Denise

Week 2 Reflections

Hello everyone!

Setting up this blog was easy, but I am not sure how to get others invited to view my blogs.

Reflecting on this weeks reading--reading Alassi and Trollip was basically a review of learning theories, but I was able to see how certain features of software is related to each theory. The article in the 2020 report by Walczak (2002) was more like something out of a science fiction movie rather than a description of Adventure Learning. It was far beyond my imagination.

Denise

Hello! I am Denise Ogden from Augusta, Georgia. I am married with two sons, ages 15 and 8. I am working on a Ph.D in educational technology. I enjoy teaching and learning. Currently, I am teaching 7th grade languge arts.

I look forward to learning and discovering new technologies and software in which I can use in my classroom and in my personal life.

Denise